Street - School of Religious Studies - Jewelled Antler related (drone, noise) [Pink Skulls, 2004, USA]

Street follow in the dirge-y drone-y footsteps of NZ greats like the Dead C and Gate but add their own special something.

Huge warm swells of guitar, organs, effects and all sorts of other noisemakers, pulses and throbs, speckled with glitchy amp buzz and splattery industrial grind. Those same ingredients are somehow tamed briefly to force all that buzzing snarling fury into a rumbling, wheezing pop song, but a pop song pregnant with the possibility of total implosion.

The record stretches out and meanders a while, through a creaking soundscape of whining violins and rickety melodies, shimmering tonal buzz and distant clinking and clattering, before the riff drops, a basement, garage sale, no-fi Stooges dirge, with damaged guitars and tortured vocals.

- Aquarius Records

This is really, REALLY good! And was only limited to maybe 100 handmade copies, which are long gone now.

RAR